How about something for Halloween?

[Rizla]

Originally Posted by BenG

Shadowland by Peter Straub (Apparently Ghost Story isn't available as an ebook.)

The Big Book of Ghost Stories, edited by Otto Penzler

I enjoyed Shadowland. I started Ghost Story, and it was about typical psychotic killer kidnaps child, etc. Nae my cuppa. I'm not a horror-type, but I dabble in most genres. Shadowland was awesome though. Like Harry Potter locked in a ghostly mansion hunted by a necrophiliac loony, sort of. Awesomeness.

[Rizla]

The Thief of Always by Clive Barker is very haloweeny and great for kids and adults. Only book by him I like.

[Rizla]

And Hamlet:

'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the bitter day
Would quake to look on. Soft, now to my mother.—

Creepy, or what.

[BenG]

Originally Posted by Rizla

I enjoyed Shadowland. I started Ghost Story, and it was about typical psychotic killer kidnaps child, etc. Nae my cuppa. I'm not a horror-type, but I dabble in most genres. Shadowland was awesome though. Like Harry Potter locked in a ghostly mansion hunted by a necrophiliac loony, sort of. Awesomeness.

If you mean the guy and the apparently kidnapped young girl in the prologue, things are not what they seem. It's not a psychotic killer story, it's a supernatural horror story.

And I like your description of Shadowland.